Recurring in Preindustrial Economy -- Chapter 3. Capital Accumulation -- Chapter 4. Productivity Growth -- Chapter 5. Inequality … substantially over the last two centuries, driven by increased labor productivity, and derived from more intense andefficient use of …

(agriculture, manufacturing and services) characterized by different productivity gains and by saturation levels in the demands of …

sector. This discrepancy in technological proximity between sectors influences the differential productivity growth rates in …

that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …. In fact, agriculture in most developing countries has very low productivity relative to the rest of the economy …. Expanding a low-productivity sector might not be unambiguously good for growth. Moreover, there are issues of reverse causation …